SOME OTHER ACCOUNTS OF AND
REFERENCES TO THE DELUGE
 

A TEXT of King Ashurbanlpal, published by C. F.
Lehmann in his book " Shamashshumukin," vol. ii,
*■ pp. 66 and 67, states that Ashurbanlpal read many
tablets, and continues: " I was glad to read also the tablet
from the time before the deluge."

2.  A text published in the fourth volume of the " In¬
scriptions of Western Asia," plate 19, No. i, contains prob¬
ably an account of the deluge.

3.  In the " Zeitschrift fur Assyriologie," vol. iv, pp.
369 fob. Dr. Peiser published a mythological text, with a
map giving a primitive picture of Babylon at the time of
the deluge; here Per-napishtim is especially mentioned as
one of the kings who ruled before the flood. The text is
quite fragmentary. The Persian Gulf was conceived of as
encompassing Babylon, and round about this ocean lay
seven islands. The mountain of the deluge was due north
of Babylon, but still within the space inclosed by the ocean.
The time of the deluge was apparently designated as " the
year of the great serpent."

4.  A most Important new fragment of a Babylonian ac¬
count of the deluge was found by Father Scheil, of Paris.
It is dated: Month of Shebat, day twenty-eighth, the year
in which Ammlzaduga built the fortress at the mouth of
the river Euphrates—I. e., not much later than 2140 b. c.
The subscription, fortunately preserved, informs us that

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